Saffienatu Turay

ID: SLGM061

Country: Sierra Leone

My birthday is 2012-01-09

Status: Social Orphan

I want to be a nurse.

I enjoy doing laundry.

My favorite subject is English.

Saffienatu lives with her grandmother who is a gardener. Saffienatus's parents could not cope with the responsibility of being parents, so she was left to be raised by her grandmother. Saffienatus's grandmother is not able to provide adequately for all of her grandchildren living with her. Saffienatu is able to attend school, but she is asked out each time school fees are due. Her grandmother will manage to raise enough money to send her back. This causes lapses in her education each time. Thanks to her sponsorship, she has been able to continue her education. Saffienatu wants to be a nurse in the future. Her favorite subject is English. 

Most parents struggle to provide their families with more than one meal a day, so the cost to send their children to school is not easy to come by. Typically, those who can afford to send one or two of their children to school will choose to send only their sons. Girls whose parents cannot afford to send them to school will be left at home to tend to daily chores, and their smaller siblings while the parents are away earning their daily wages. This lack of education and supervision makes girls just entering adolescence very vulnerable to teenage pregnancy. Girls who have not been given access to education are often left with no option but to marry at young ages to be financially supported by their husbands.

 

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